Not exactly, you’ll still be working from home - my point is that the function of being more homebound over time means less unintentional social inputs (you’re never going to be as close to coworkers through virtual happy hours) which is a source of social interaction for many Americans. If you want rising crime, too, empty streets for hours a day and no one around is certainly encouraging.

I’m not a grandpa, actually, I’m 25. You sound like a tech bro that listens exclusively audiobooks because “paper is dead”. Having a great city necessitates that individuals form communities - spending your day also where you sleep de facto forms a barrier in community building. What cool things will there be left to do? Order from ghost kitchens on Grubhub? Uber to each other’s houses because the subway service have to be cut from lack of revenue? Meet potential partners only through apps that algorithmically evaluate human characteristics? New York without sidewalk culture, where mom and pops are put under more stress because of virtual work patterns and less daytime customers, where more corporate workers will have things delivered to them by supply chain giants like Amazon, that’s not New York. Sounds like gross suburbia to me. It’s healthy to question any form of “advancement” that places people in less social contexts and has tremendous impact on our city.

Here’s a tip: you’ll never be “unchained” as a worker. You not being in the office and having to stare at a screen all day from your apartment or the Hudson valley and counting down the hours till you can log off slack is not freedom, it’s labor where you get to choose your background. Congrats. If you want to actually free people, think about advocating not for work from home but just and equitable pay practices for all. After pandemic bosses are going to extract more labor and more time from virtual employees, anyway.